From Harbin ( China)
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Sep 11, 2007
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Vladivostok,
Russia
Sunday, December 23, 2007
I arrive Thursady in Harbin, little city in China ( that's what they told me ) about 3.5 million people, we all have different way of seeing things :)
I met Nicolai in the bus, very good Russian man with who we spend this few days together here. We met Yu Song Ye from Shangai and he was a great help for many different actions around the city, cause honestly Chinese for me sounds like "........."
I had the chance to arrive for the opening day of the Ice festival....something completly unreal, with ice amazing ice sculptures, some of them are about 15 meters high.
There are lots of them around the city, but especially at the Zhaolin Park.
This years of course is about Olympic Games.
you can have a look at few pictures here: http://images.google.cn/images?complete=1&hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=ice+lantern+festival+harbin&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi or http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/heilongjiang/harbin/ice_snow.htm
I visited the Siberian Tiger park, about 400 hunreds of this magnificient big cats...
http://images.google.cn/images?complete=1&hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=tiger+park+harbin&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
I heard many good things about chinese food before arriving to China, and ican tell you it wasn't a lie. I'm going today to Beijing, about 16 hours train, to see what they call a big Chinese city, and to try this famous duck.
I don't have much time before taking the train...so i will stop here and wish you a very good time wherever you are or doing...and for those who believe in Santa Close I wish you a Happy Christmas....and a very special one to little Evan in Dublin, for his first Christmas.
Take care
nico
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Comments
merry xmas cousin!
i know it's ong time u don't believe in santa, but i can't contain to wish u a merry xmas, and i've emailed u a little present ;)
tomorrow meeting the whole family: val, gilou, julie etc... will be a great time, as usual
china sounds amazing! hope u'll put some pix soon! did u buy a new camera? (sorry for the lost one)
hugs&kisses
joyeux noel little frenchie
salut nico
un joyeux noel de la part des hauts Savoyards qui suivent avec interet et envie les tribulations du p'tit Nico en Chine!Comme t 'es parti on n'est pas prets de te revoir sur les pistes!Seras tu encore à Pékin pour les J.O?T'as des adresses sur place?Ici ça va etre l'heure de la dinde ,à défaut de canard,et du foie gras...de canard!
Au plaisir de te lire sur ton blog
Bises de nous 3
Berangere Lucas et Hervé
Happy new year!!!
Salut Nico,
Je tenais à te souhaiter une bonne année 2008 à l'autre bout du monde! Je pense qu'elle a très bien commencé pour toi, toujours avec des images plein la tête...
Je te fais de grosses bises.
Maud.
Salut mon frère!,
J'éspère que tu as bien fini l'année et que tu attaques la nouvelle sur les chapeaux de roues!!!
Marc agrandi la famille par l'arrivée d'une petite Vittoria le 29 décembre. Laurie et la petite se portent à merveille.
J'éspère que tout se passe bien pour toi et que tu as pu trouver du travail à Pékin.
Bisous.
Je pense bien à toi même si je ne t'écris pas souvent.
Eric.